May 27 Meeting Summary and Action Items

The Technical Infrastructure Committee (TIC) met on 5/27/10 with the following agenda:

• report from Meghan about North Carolina workshop
• map out other issues we need to tackle over the early summer with local grant project start ups and Catalina settling in
• review our digitization resources survey results-- discuss known hardware/software needs
• brief go round the table on any current non-grant projects at each institution
• plan to upload to google site local resource documents/links that will help Catalina study up on past and current local projects
• committee input to the staff survey
• draft job description for 18-month Interface Development intern/staff replacement position

Out of this discussion came the following action items:

• Meghan will send a summary report of the DigCCurr workshop, which includes implementation ideas for those areas most applicable to our project.
• Alan will revise/complete the OhioLink Dspace metadata application profile and share it with the committee so we can start thinking about identifying/sharing metadata plans.
• Alan will create an area on the NGL website for the committee to share documents related to existing collections and processes to help Catalina get up to speed.
• Each committee member will share relevant documents and links in area above.
• Each commitee member will add 1-2 questions to be included on the staff technical expertise survey. We'll do this on the NGL TIC website
• The committee will work with the Staff Development committee to set up a "project share" videoconference where each school can share the details of the approved projects. This should help us identify technical and staff development needs which relate to our proposed collections.

We also discussed these topics

• We anticipate that staff development activities on the basics of metadata schemes and some more technical details of scanning (beyond the basics of pixels/resolutions) will be a high priority. We didn't discuss exactly what form the training may take and felt that we should take the specific grant projects into account before moving too far ahead.
• We talked with Mark Christel and decided to delay writing up a job description for the 1/2 time technical infrastructure position until Catalina is on board and we have a little more clarity, based on the local projects, what specific tasks we'd like this person to do. We did agree that, this should be a 0.5FTE/2 yr position, rather than more than 0.5 fte for a shorter period of time.